Now I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but there are literally only 3 weeks left of the regular season, which means we are only 4 weeks away from the start of the playoffs and only 7 short weeks away from crowning a champion! Good lord this season is flying by! Flying by so fast, in fact, that I haven’t finished a write-up in three weeks. (There are two half-started Word docs saved on my computer...d'oh!) So we’ve got a lot to get to this week.
Weeks 7, 8 and 9 belonged to Joe’s Pats with scores of 127, 114 and 121 claiming all three weeks in a row, bringing Joe’s total number of Weekly High Score Prizes to four! Pulling off a triplet and winning three weeks in a row is a feat which has been only accomplished three previous times since 2010. Here’s a couple throwbacks for you: Jensy’s “Boom Goes The Dynamite” did it back in 2012 (Weeks 13, 14 & 15), Timmy’s “Ch. 4 News Team” did it in 2013 (Weeks 2, 3 & 4), and Joe also did it last season (Weeks 14, 15 & 16). Nice work Joe!
In Week 10 we had two record-setting performances… sprouts had a phenomenal game with six players scoring in excess of 13 points, led by Nick Chubb’s 35 points, and finished with 138 points. But not to be outdone, American BadAss had a game for the ages with seven players scoring in excess of 17 points (four of those greater than 20!), led by Ezekiel Elliott’s 33 points, and finished with 158 points! The 158 points by BadAss is the highest single-week score in Sacred Sundays history, breaking the 150 point record held by the Midnight Maulers since Week 4, 2016. Why did I bring up sprouts score? Well the 138 points scored by Russ is the highest score ever to not win a Weekly High Score Prize. Fortunately, sprouts and BadAss were not playing head-to-head because to lose when scoring 138 would be a tough one to swallow. Well done bro, and nice game as well Russ!
As mentioned earlier, we have only three weeks left of the regular season, so it’s time to start talking about playoff scenarios. More on that below…. So let’s do this!!
BIG TIME BABY!
- Mitchell Trubisky, QB – sprouts – 38 pts – Trubisky threw for 355 yards and 3 TD’s, plus added a rushing TD, plus added a 2-pt conversion. This is the second time this season Trubisky has led all scorers in a week, and he still owns the highest single-game score of this season with his 46 point performance in Week4.
- Ben Roethlisberger, QB – Coors Light Drunk Guys – 35 pts – Big Ben is still getting it done, and currently ranks as the 4th highest scoring QB in fantasy.
- Nick Chubb, RB – sprouts – 35 pts – Quite the breakout game for Chubb, going for 176 yards on the ground, plus 33 yards through the air (over 200 yards of offense), plus added 2 TD’s.
- Ezekiel Elliott, RB – American BadAss – 33 pts – Keep on feeding him! 151 yards on the ground and a TD, plus 33 yards receiving and a TD. That’ll work.
- Christian McCaffrey, RB – Longshanks – 31 pts – Through his first six games, McCaffrey was averaging only 11.5 points per game. In his last three, he’s averaging 24.7, with point totals of 17, 26 and 31. Using Excel’s trending, he should score 39 points this week and 46 points in Week 12! Bring it on!
COME ON MAN!
- Coors Light Drunk Guys – Starters included two players on byes (Latavius Murray and Houston Def) and one player on inactive list (Chris Thompson). Set your roster Shawn!! Come on man!
- David Njoku, TE – Coors Light Drunk Guys – 1 pt – Then you have your tight end only score 1 pt! How did you only lose by 4 points??!
- OJ Howard, TE – Joe’s Pats – 1 pt – To his credit, he caught every ball thrown his way. Unfortunately, that was 1 catch for 15 yards.
- Cody Parkey, K – Beats Shawn-not off! – 0 pts – Here’s a great stat line for a kicker: 2 PAT made, 2 PAT missed. Wow.
- Jimmy Graham, TE – Young Guns – 1 pt – Another 1-for-1 guy… caught the only ball thrown to him for a meager 14 yards.
- New York Jets, DEF – Young Guns – 0 pts – In what looked like a sweet matchup for the Jets, playing at home against Buffalo, they got lit up for 41 points and managed only 1 sack on the day.
PLAYOFFS?! DON’T TALK ABOUT PLAYOFFS!
Before we get into any scenario discussion, a quick refresher on the playoff rules:
Six teams qualify for the playoffs: Top two teams in each division automatically qualify. The next two highest ranked teams receive Wildcards. (The top team in each division receives a first round bye.)
Wildcards are not division specific…both can come from the same division.
For divisional rankings, the following criteria will be used (in order): Overall record, Division record, Head-to-head record, Points scored, Coin flip.
For Wildcard rankings, the following criteria will be used (in order): Overall record, Head-to-head record, Points scored, Coin flip.
During the playoffs, all teams are still eligible to win the Weekly High Score Prize. The final standings at the end of the regular season determine team standings for 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th place.
Finally, in playoff matchups there are no tie games. Ties in any game prior to the Championship Game will automatically go to the higher seeded team. If there is a tie in the Championship game, the following tie-breakers will be used (in order): team with highest scoring QB, team with highest scoring RB, team with highest scoring WR, Co-champions if still tied.
Now onto this season. The standings are remarkably tight and remarkably similar to last season. Last season going into Week 11 there were two 7 win teams and one 3 win team. This season we again have two 7 win teams and two 3 win teams. Last season, among the playoff qualifying teams, three had only 7 wins and one had only 6 wins. This means any team who can get to 8 wins will assure themselves of a playoff spot, so 8 wins is the goal at this point. There are seven teams with the potential to make it to eight wins (Attack of Mahomes, Joe’s Pats, Vandelay Industries, Team IR and Holdout!, Longshanks, American BadAss and sprouts). So all of those teams are well in control of their own destiny.
Young Guns can win out to still finish with 7 wins, which I gotta think would almost definitely secure a playoff spot, and the fact that a 6 win team made it in last year means the Coors Light Drunk Guys and Beats Shawn-not off! still have a shot to make it in.
I’m going to make a prediction right here, right now, that any team who wins out from this point will make it into the playoffs.
Next week I’ll have full playoff scenarios for each team.
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WEEKLY RANDOMNESS
I think I want a job cleaning mirrors. It’s just something I could really see myself doing.
What’s orange and sounds like a parrot. A carrot.
Why was six afraid of seven? Because seven was a registered six offender.
Two fish are in a tank. One is driving and the other is operating the gun.
What’s something that’s red and bad for your teeth? A brick.
My grandpa has the heart of a lion, and a lifetime ban from the zoo.
A horse walks into a bar. The bartender says, “Why the long face?” The horse replies, “My alcoholism is destroying my family.”
ALL UNWANTEDS
It has been an up and down season for the All Unwanteds, but mostly down. It appears there was good reason we steered clear of drafting many Cardinals, Dolphins or Jets. Their last four weekly point totals have been 66 (Week 7), 77 (Week 8), 63 (Week 9) and 57 (Week 10). In head-to-head matchups with every team in the league across those four weeks, it adds up to 7 wins and 33 losses. Ouch!
But there was one bright spot I wanted to highlight… Week 6 was a magical week for the AU’s, check out this roster:
QB Brock Osweiler Mia 28
RB Frank Gore Mia 11
RB Bilal Powell NYJ 5
WR Albert Wilson Mia 30
WR Terrelle Pryor NYJ 11
TE Chris Herndon NYJ 11
K Jason Myers NYJ 27
DEF Arizona Ari 15
Total 138
Osweiler 28 points(!), Albert Wilson 30 points(!!) and kicker Jason Myers spinning the scoreboard for 27!!! Go All Unwanteds!! The 138 points scored would have defeated all teams that week (Weekly High Score was 127).
BEST BENCH(ES)
We’ve got three Best Benches to give out this week…
Week 8 saw a lot of points scored in the games and just a 36 point improvement possibility for Best Bench, which ended up going to first time recipient… Attack of Mahomes! Timmy needed only 3 roster moves to get there: M. Jones Jr. for A. Jeffrey +20, S. Watkins for D. Jackson +10, and K. Drake for K. Hunt +6.
In Week 9 it was one of the lower point improvement possibilities to take the crown at only 28 points. Needing just three roster moves to get there, Week 9’s Best Bench went to… Young Guns! John’s first Best Bench this season: Miami for NY Jets +18, C. Ridley for J. Smith-Schuster +6, R. Fitzpatrick for D. Watson +4.
This week there were several teams with some solid bench play, but Timmy loved it so much in Week 8 he wanted to do it again in Week 10! This time it was a solid 44 point improvement with three roster moves: E. Ebron for T. Kelce +20, A. Jones for D. Jackson +19 and S. Shepard for A. Jeffrey +5.
Get those waivers in and get your rosters set! Final push to the playoffs!!
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